Cyclic Error Correcting Codes
Daniel F. Russell
Error correcting codes are codes which have the ability to correct
errors which may arise in transmission. In this project linear codes
are studied; these codes can be represented by matrices. A special
case of this are the cyclic codes, which correspond to ideals in
the ring F[x]/(xn-1) where F
is a field. One problem here is that xn-1 is not
easy to factor. (Advisor Edward Green)